RHA Tungsten Mine

Commodity: Tungsten

The RHA Project is located in an area of historic production, approximately 270km northwest of Bulawayo. Premier has advanced the RHA project from an exploration project through to a producing tungsten mining operation.

The project comprises 50 Mineral Claim Blocks, covering 1,800 hectares, consisting of 10 owned by Premier and 40 which are under option. Small-scale surface and underground mining was conducted at the site between 1931 and 1979. Total production from the RHA and Tung Mines was 1,247.65 tonnes of wolframite concentrate, containing 65% WO3.

The deposit is approximately 800m in strike length and 300m wide. Premier African recently announced a resource of 22.14 million tonnes at 2.45kg per tonne in both the underground and open pit operations. (Please see resource table below)

To date, Premier African Minerals has invested around US$18million in the acquisition and development of the mine as well as the plant and necessary infrastructure.

The processing plant is a conventional gravity processing plant with a capacity of 40,000 tonnes per month. The plant is equipped with an XRT sorter to upgrade the feed to the plant and hence reduce the overall operating costs.

The plant produces a commercial tungsten concentrate (in excess of 60% W03) and the Company currently has an offtake agreement with Noble Resources.